eBay Listing Comparison Tool in Visual Basic

Introduction: This tutorial is on how to create a quick and easy eBay listing comparison tool. Design: This tool will take two textboxes and a button, one for each eBay listing link and the button to begin the comparison process. The tool will also have two of each following (the naming will be one ending with "1" and the other ending with "2" - for the first and second eBay listing link...)... title price seller date Getting The Sources: Then once the button has been pressed, we want to make sure that the two textbox texts are links to the http www so we ensure they are, then if they are we send a httpwebrequest to the web link, get a response, read the stream to a string variable (src1 or src2, depending on which link we are processing) using a new streamreader's readtoend function to get the entire result and therefore the entire page source... Extracting the Information: Then, lastly, we want to extract the information. For this we are going to create a function named 'getBetween' which will return the entire string from a containing string between two given strings points, make sense?... Then we simply go to the source page (in our browser, I'm using Chrome to Inspect the elements) and find a regular expression between the two listing pages. Once you have found one, we can simply use these two points to extract the string of information between them. We do this and set the appropriate labels text for most of the labels... For the estimated delivery date, we need to make the regex area smaller, so we create a string from the page source string, then extract the information from there... As you can see, we get the source from the ebay listing web page between the words "Estimated by" and "" then from that we extract the date in bold between the bold tags ("" and ""). Finished!